Amazing review, almost no bonus, no raise. Do I hold out for next year?

I have been working for my company for 11 months now. I do love my team and my boss is amazing, and I have a fantastic work life balance, I’m remote and not micromanaged so I can structure my days how I want besides meetings I need to hop into. I have had excellent performance and an amazing review. I have been hand selected to work on our top, longest standing account that my boss says only the “best of the best” work on and it’s a huge deal that someone so new is coming into it. I have volunteered to work on a specialized team doing work that is not part of my job role in the least, it’s helping fix errors in our system and only a couple of the 40 some people on the team do it. I took on a manager’s (the role above me) entire book for 4 months while she was on leave with no supervision or help needed on top of my current book. Since I started all I’ve heard from my boss is how thrilled they are that they “got me” and that they just want me to stay with the company and move up or even into another team, I’m the kind of person they need. Nothing but amazing reviews.

I just got a call from my boss’ boss to discuss merit and bonus. Apparently I don’t qualify for merit because I’m 1 month shy of being there a year, and I wasn’t going to get a bonus but they scraped up $2500 for me (pre taxes lol). I’ll have to wait another year for any compensation changes, it’s a huge company so they don’t do them mid-year. I’m pretty upset and disappointed especially after my boss telling me how amazing I’m doing and how they just feel so lucky to have me and want to keep me. My boss is always telling me how great our team is, that we’re the ones all the companies come to and it’s true, we’ve taken on so many new accounts this year they’ve had to hire 10 new people unexpectedly to meet the work needs. As he says “we’re the best and our performance and what we bring to the company shows it”.

My former company always did this too. The first year no raise because it was also 11 months instead of a year I’d been there, no raise year 2 because I transferred offices and hadn’t worked for that zone a full year. I only got one merit raise of 3K the entire 5 years I was there (and a 11k raise when I was going to take another offer and forced their hand right before I left) but I did get a 5K bonus nearly every year regardless of the raises. I know these decisions are made so high above our level and my boss had no say but it’s like a big slap in the face. I’ve gone above and beyond what even long term employees in my role do and have been praised so extensively. Others were telling me there was no way I wouldn’t be compensated fairly at review for everything I’ve been doing yet here we are. Rinse and repeat.

Is this just how corporate America is? I can’t believe three times now I’ve been fucked by the “you’ve been here 1 month shy of a year so basically nothing for you” thing. I’m 31 and thought I’d be making way more by now, and I know the level of work I do merits it. I’m about to step onto our largest account which will significantly increase my workload and stress. I’m torn between just accepting that my job affords me a good work life balance and that’s the reward now, but knowing nothing else will happen for an entire year, or being upset enough and looking elsewhere. I have a wedding to plan and need to buy a house in the next couple years here so money has been a huge stressor. I’m worried I’m just getting into the same cycle of “for x reason even though you’re killing it no raise barely any bonus” again and I’m frustrated.

TLDR; worked for my company 11 months, I’m going above and beyond and they’ve recognized that and I had a stellar review where they were heaping on praise, but no raise because it hasn’t been a year and a scant bonus that’ll amount to like $1300 post taxes. Do I hold out for next year’s review to hopefully be compensated better or try to jump again? Is this just how it goes with any huge company and I’ll just be in that cycle even if I jump? It’s so frustrating.